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I'm curious: why have you decided to test students? Why not just let them take the course and learn from it?

I ask because testing introduces a set of issues that can thwart your original purpose (instruction), if not carefully managed. Speaking as someone who's developed many online tests, it seems to me that you want to be careful not to let the tail wag the dog, as so often happens with testing. The way these things often go is:

Start writing questions to test what you've been teaching

Realize that this test-writing stuff is a lot harder than it looks.

After a great deal of effort, get your test written.

Realize that what you're testing is no longer quite what you're teaching.

Adjust what you're teaching to reflect the test.

How they should go:

Decide what you want to teach.

Articulate, as clearly as possible, the specific skills or knowledge that make up what you want to teach.

If possible, decide what's most important and what's less important.

Looking at each skill or item of knowledge, think of questions that constitute a valid test of that skill/knowledge, such that:

Who is your target audience? Why would they come to your site instead of going to a dojo? If they are not ready to sign up at a real life dojo, why would they come to your site instead of making use of the myriad of online resources, videos, etc already out there?

How will you decide WHOSE names for attacks and arts you will use. How will you explain this to the student who may pay and test and then be stunned upon joining a dojo in a style that uses totally different nomenclature.

I also failed to get past registration. I fill in al the required fields, the (quite hard) captchas, check to accept user agreement, submit, but nothing happens (well, I get new captchas, but no error message or email to complete my registration).

I also failed to get past registration. I fill in al the required fields, the (quite hard) captchas, check to accept user agreement, submit, but nothing happens (well, I get new captchas, but no error message or email to complete my registration).

It's probably your spam filters. Or, if you use an email filtering service such as SpamArrest, you will never be able to sign up for any site so you might as well give it up.

It's probably your spam filters. Or, if you use an email filtering service such as SpamArrest, you will never be able to sign up for any site so you might as well give it up.

My spam filter is not that strict in my experience, unless the sender is from some blacklisted address, but you could be right.

But registration pages usually respond with some kind of confirmation when you submit your registration. For example, stating that it sent an email to your email address, containing a link to complete the registration. But this registration page gives no response when you submit your registration (besides generating new captchas).

My spam filter is not that strict in my experience, unless the sender is from some blacklisted address, but you could be right.

But registration pages usually respond with some kind of confirmation when you submit your registration. For example, stating that it sent an email to your email address, containing a link to complete the registration. But this registration page gives no response when you submit your registration (besides generating new captchas).